the hated Yankees (I was a Dodgers fan)
quid,
You remember a lot more than I do about the '54 Indians, suggesting greater passion for the game, but, before we lapse back into biotechnology, let me add this story.
When I was a young lawyer in New York, one night during the NY Yankees - Los Angeles Dodgers world series in the early eighties (1981?), I had worked at the office late (the law firm's rule was that, if an associate worked on a client matter past 8PM, the client got billed for the cab). I hailed a cab on lower Broadway about 9, and the cabbie had the game on the radio.
I then asked an, uh, unguarded (i.e. seriously dumb, culturally clueless) question: "Who's ahead, us or them?", assuming (utterly cluelessly -- I was from the provinces, new in New York) that the "hometown" Yankees would be the favorites.
He turned around, looked at me with some malevolence, and asked: "Who's us?"
It turned out that the cabbie was a longtime, unreconstructed Dodgers fan, who a quarter century after "the Great Betrayal" of the Dodgers abandoning Brooklyn, was still a committed Dodger fan, and still passionately hated the Yankees. I learned to be more cautious about such things.
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